David Strathairn

David Strathairn (76)

1949-01-26 | San Francisco, California, USA

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He also starred in L.A. Confidential (1997), Godzilla (2014), and the Bourne franchise (2007–2012). Strathairn appeared in supporting roles in many notable films such as A League of Their Own (1992), Sneakers (1992), The Firm (1993), The River Wild (1995), Lincoln (2012), Nomadland (2020), and Nightmare Alley (2021). He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, who is a fellow graduate of Williams College. On television, Strathairn is known for his recurring roles in The Sopranos (2004), Alphas (2011–2012), The Blacklist (2015–2016), Billions (2017–2019), and The Expanse (2018–2019). He received a Primetime Emmy Award win and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in the HBO television film Temple Grandin (2010).

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On Movies

  • A Little Prayer
  • The Luckiest Man in America
  • O Horizon
  • Remember This
  • Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Nomadland
  • Walkaway Joe
  • The Devil Has a Name
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters
  • Fast Color
  • My Dinner with Hervé
  • UFO
  • An Interview with God
  • Darkest Hour
  • November Criminals
  • American Pastoral
  • He Does Not Want Peace
  • Louder Than Bombs
  • The Debt
  • The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • Godzilla
  • No God, No Master
  • Lincoln
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn
  • The Bourne Legacy
  • Maladies
  • The Whistleblower
  • The Tempest
  • Howl
  • Temple Grandin
  • Matadors
  • Cold Souls
  • The Uninvited
  • The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • My Blueberry Nights
  • Matters of Life and Death
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Racing Daylight
  • Steel Toes
  • Fracture
  • We Are Marshall
  • The Sensation of Sight
  • Heavens Fall
  • The Shovel
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • The Notorious Bettie Page
  • Missing in America
  • Twisted
  • Paradise
  • Blue Car
  • Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
  • Lathe of Heaven
  • Speakeasy
  • Relative Evil
  • The Victim
  • A Good Baby
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Harrison's Flowers
  • Freedom Song
  • A Map of the World
  • Limbo
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Bad Manners
  • The Giraffe
  • Simon Birch
  • With Friends Like These
  • Evidence of Blood
  • The Climb
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Song of Hiawatha
  • In the Gloaming
  • Mother Night
  • Beyond the Call
  • Home for the Holidays
  • Dolores Claiborne
  • Losing Isaiah
  • The River Wild
  • A Dangerous Woman
  • The Firm
  • Lost in Yonkers
  • The American Clock
  • Passion Fish
  • Sneakers
  • Bob Roberts
  • A League of Their Own
  • Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
  • O Pioneers!
  • City of Hope
  • Without Warning: The James Brady Story
  • Judgment
  • Memphis Belle
  • Heat Wave
  • The Feud
  • Day One
  • Eight Men Out
  • Call Me
  • Stars & Bars
  • Dominick and Eugene
  • Matewan
  • Broken Vows
  • At Close Range
  • When Nature Calls
  • The Brother from Another Planet
  • Iceman
  • Silkwood
  • Lovesick
  • Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
  • Return of the Secaucus Seven

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